Building a Bicycle-Friendly Concord

Sent every two weeks with info about rides, parties, and local bike advocacy.

Bike Concord, launched in 2014, has a lot of successes under their belt already: buffered bike lanes included in the design plan for Detroit Avenue, a recurring community bike tent at the farmers market, and a great group of volunteers organizing events. Bike Concord is kick-starting a community led effort to build a more bike friendly Concord through advocacy, events, rides, education and more.

Bike Concord is a volunteer-led Local Group building an active and engaged constituency of bicyclists to work with the city of Concord.

We’ve seen great local interest in bicycling via our well-attended bike education classes and through a hugely successful free bike repair tent at the Thursday Farmers Market. Launched in 2014 by volunteers and Bike East Bay advocacy staff, Bike Concord has already had meaningful impact and has pushed for better infrastructure in current projects.

Bike Concord’s mission: Bike Concord is working for safe, convenient, and enjoyable bicycling in our community.

Come to the Concord Senior Center, 2727 Parkside Circle this Wednesday starting at 6:00pm to provide feedback on two separate projects: The first, the Downtown Corridors Plan, will craft a vision for downtown streets for future projects. The creation of this plan will help the city in applying...

Bike lanes have been striped on Detroit Ave since almost November. However, steady and impredictable rains have kept crews from adding the much needed (and much wanted!) green paint. Until today! We caught crews out applying green thermoplastic paint to sections of the bike lanes.
Marc...

The city of Concord has an inventory map of all official bike parking spaces. There are 16 locations total throughout the city - those are represented in green on the map below.
We believe many more need to be installed before...

Update
Plans for Concord’s first use of green paint will live to see another day.
Recap from Kenji Yamada, Bike Concord advocacy organizer:
I’m happy to report that with the agreement of both Councilmembers on the committee, staff will be bringing a recommendation to the full Council on...